asperne

Asperne

A*sperne"\, v. t. [L. aspernari; a (ab) + spernari.] To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] --Sir T. More.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Asperne is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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